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Paul Marcus
Executive Director

Paul Marcus is a white anti-racist activist, educator and consultant. A biology teacher for sixteen years, Paul combined science with concern for anti-racism and multicultural education in independent schools. He has had extensive experience planning and conducting workshops and trainings for wide variety of non-profit and corporate clients. Together with organizers and educators from all across the country, he works to understand and challenge the role white people play in perpetuating and maintaining white supremacy, racism and white privilege. He taught the “History of Racism in the United States of America” at Boston College for many years. A master teacher for the Critical Skills/Education by Design program at Antioch New England Graduate School, Paul trains teachers to develop a collaborative learning community methodology.

Myrna E. Morales

Social Media Coordinator

Born amidst a pack of wild dogs, she was raised to speak in Cesar's language.  Actually, she was born in a paradise known as Newark, NJ where few people have had the privilege of visiting.  She was known as the email queen in her college as she would mine the networked world in search of other people of color in higher ed, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't.  She likes reading, cooking and long walks on the beach.  She's ready to meet her knight in shining armor, so she could steal the horse (the horse would undoubtedly be happier with her).  She has a teaching degree, a library degree and some years in medical school, but no medical degree.  She doesn't particularly enjoy writing biographies, but loves reading them!  Her favs?  Assata Shakur, Nina Simone, Muhammed Ali, Piri Thomas, Malcolm X and so on and so on.  She could spend a lifetime at the Pappenheim Library and be alright (We think she stole that from Malcolm X, you know the quote that says: "My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.").  If you need to reach her, you'll find her here.

Rebecca Y. Martin

Resource Center Coordinator

Rebecca Martin has been steadily volunteering at the Yvonne Pappenheim Library on Anti-Racism at Community Change, Inc for the last 2 years (maybe longer and because of her, Myrna found out about this beautiful stellarly onpoint library). Her interests lay at the intersections of libraries, civic engagement and social aspects of communication technologies. She brings several years of library service and community organizing experience to CCI, with stints, some still on-ongoing, at organizations including Radical Reference, Amnesty International USA, Boston Mobilization and ACCION International. Rebecca recently completed her Masters in Library and Information Science with a focus on Digital Librarianship at Rutgers University and now splits her work time between Boston University Pappas Law Library and CCI. Off-the-clock, she can be found biking Boston’s streets, hiking New England’s mountains and trying her best to improve her Korean. 

Sadly, beautiful people in the struggle understand that change is the only constant and that to further hone the critical eye, movement must ensue.  Ernestine, Janet and Meck are no longer working for Community Change, but continue to work for community and for change. Meck continues her work with CCI as a member of the Board of Directors.  Thank you for your hardwork!

Janet Gillespie, Ph.D., M.F.A.
Director of Programming

Janet organizes and administers antiracist learning/action events at CCI and works in collaboration with other Boston social justice groups in the struggle against structural racism. Janet has worked with Work 4 Quality/Fight 4 Equity Schools to close the learning opportunity gap in the Boston Public Schools and with the School to Prison Pipeline Working Group, which addresses the national trend of criminalizing rather than educating our nation’s children. In 2009 she organized and coordinated “Understanding Palestine & Israel,” a six part series featuring some of Boston’s foremost authorities on the Palestine/Israel and voices from the occupied territories.

In addition to her work with Community Change, Janet teaches racial perspectives through literature, writing, critical thinking, and performing arts at the Boston Campus of Springfield College and at the New England Institute of the Arts in Boston.

Meck Groot, M.A.
Communications and Programming

Meck comes to CCI with extensive experience as an educator and facilitator in the field of whiteness, antiracism and multiculturalism. Formerly Co-Director of Women's Theological Center, Meck has worked on numerous projects with CCI over the years, including several national conferences on whiteness. Her particular interest is in bringing spiritual resources and practices to antiracism work. In her parttime work at CCI, Meck supports CCI's work through program support and communications.

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